Democrat Sorry For Saying 'Slavishly'

Rep. Steny Hoyer Used Racially-Charged Word Referencing Black Senate Candidate

(CBS/AP)  Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer has apologized for a poor choice of words during a political rally with Democratic Senate candidate Ben Cardin on Sunday in Upper Marlboro.

As reported by MSNBC Tuesday, Hoyer criticized Cardin's Republican opponent Michael Steele for what Hoyer called-- quote -- "a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party."

Steele is black, and yesterday called the description racist and "the height of arrogance."

"It goes to just the sheer craziness of some in the Democratic Party who think they can use racist terms and infer things about me just because I'm an African American Republican," Steele said, reports The Washington Post.

The head of the National Black Church Initiative, the Reverend Anthony Evans, also condemned the remark.

Hoyer is the Number Two Democrat in the House of Representatives. In a statement yesterday, he said he should not have used the description. He added that if Steele did take offense, none was intended.

Steele began running a TV ad Tuesday that highlights the money Cardin has earned from drug, oil, and insurance companies despite his insistence that he is not beholden to special interests, the Baltimore Sun reports.

[radiob-2009]

Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate Tan D. Nguyen suspected of sending a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.

This sure sounds racist to me.

[janeymcgreev]

No, racistb, that would be YOU. Hows dem white sheets these days? Don't forget to wear one when you sit down nicely next to Barrack Obama and Belafonte.

As usual the Dems lie and cry.

[radiob-2009]

Allen has spent weeks battling the fallout from a series of missteps that started when he used what is sometimes regarded as a racial slur against at Webb campaign staffer of Indian descent. Bush made no mention of Allen's troubles.
Another racist Jane?

[janemcgreev1]

Blacks unfortunately vote Democratic because despite the vicious Racism of Woodrow Wilson, because FDR did nothing when Blacks were being lynched by the score by Byrd's predecessors Bilbo and Rankin - both Dems, because Kennedy sat on his perverted duff while Blacks were being hosed down or firebombed in Birmingham, they got the notion somehow that there was a future for them in the Democratic Party.

Remember, the GOP of the early 1960s was a bastion of WASPishness. Even Jewish people felt uncomfortable back then with Republicans as they should now with the Hitlerite Democrats. It was a false notion, egged on by corrupt types like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, that Blacks had a home in the Democratic Party. Of course that meant a Barrack Obama had to sit uncomfortably close to an unreconstructed racist like Bobby Byrd.

Today however, J.C. Watts, Colin Powell, Mike Steele, even Lynn Swann the great USC footballer are bringing Black Americans back to the Party of Lincoln - where they belong - not the party of Poll Taxes, of Lynch Laws, of Hoses and Firebombs and White Sheets.

[janemcgreev1]

bluestardad,

please wipe the spittle courtesy of your fellow democrats off that uniform. You're embarassing those who, like members of my family serve honorably and not bitterly.

and that goes for the lunatic clown radiob - he of the straightjacket fame, or the bozo who calls itself Huskerarmy - are you sure you didn't mean Hitlersarmy?

If a Republican says something insensitive, the baboons and nazi enthusiasts go ape. If a dumb dem like Hoyer or Byrd does it, they convienently hibernate. As usual clueless, dumb, and gutless.

[radiob-2009]

To everyone there are certain individuals that post here that do exactly as you say,not only on this post but others also.They are provacataurs and actually do the democratic party more good than harm.They antagonize to incite anger but if you read the Washinton Post or Times article that type of rhetoric combined with the real problems this country faces is driving people to the democratic party.In the state of Kansas alone 9 republicans have switched parties and are now running quite well against the republican incumbents and challengers.People want a middle ground.They are tired of the far right and the far left.

[huskerarmy]

Jane,

Here's a test. Please try to explain, without patronizing condesention, why blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Here's a clue... Blacks know where their best intersts lie. Your "fascist" and "racist" hooey is nothing more than empty projection, and anyone with half a brain can see it for what it is.

[bluestardad]

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Okay now I know JaneMcGreeve has absolutely nothing constructive to say.

[janemcgreev1]

radiob, address the subject, not your biases. The subject was and is a DEMOCRATIC RACIST. You know, just like Bobby Byrd, the Grand Kleagle of West Virginny (D-KKKW. Va.)

[radiob-2009]

slav7ish (slvsh)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
2. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original.
Disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham parlayed his seat on the House Intelligence Committee into at least $70 million in business for two contractors who in turn paid him millions in bribes, an investigator hired by the panel has concluded.
The report sees a need for law enforcement and national security agencies to examine Cunningham's dealings with foreigners. "While our review has not identified any national security breaches resulting from the Cunningham conspiracy, we are aware of dealings that that Cunningham had with certain foreign nationals," it said.

One congressional official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the full report has yet to be released, said Stern was particularly interested in two trips Cunningham made to Saudi Arabia in 2004.
There are many ways to interpet the meaning.As in being slavish to money,corruption and greed.

[radiob-2009]

slav7ish (slvsh)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
2. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original.

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[janemcgreeve]

So, where's Barrack Obama and Harry Belafonte? Seems the only Plantation Slaves are in the Democratic Party - just ask the clown Maupin in Arizona, the sicko girls McKinney in Georgia and Waters in California, and of course "Hymietown" Jackson and the REVEREND Al Sharpton.

They know how to shriek - especially as they grovel after Massa Byrdie.

And now this laughable guy Hoyer - from the border state of Maryland. No wonder why, despite Calypso Harry, more Intelligent Black people are voting GOP. Better a party that gave us Lincoln than one that gave us the Klan, the Jim Crow Laws, the Poll Tax and the Lynch law.

[huskerarmy]

"To be sure, the color line is fuzzier than it has ever been. Our airwaves frequently broadcast the lifestyles of the black and beautiful %u2013 the Oprah Winfreys, Michael Jordans, Condoleeza Rices and Colin Powells of the world. As proud as we are of African American icons it would be foolhardy to suggest that all black people share experiences with these icons. AT the other end, one in four African Americans, and forty percent of African American children live in poverty. Is racism real? No question. We commemorate Black History Month because it is an important way to recognize the many contributions African American people have made to our nation, because our nation, despite the progress it has made, still fails to systematically acknowledge black history. Until our textbooks spill over with stories of the slaves who built our nation%u2019s capital, the African American patriots who fought and died for our country, and the African American scientists whose inventions have shaped our lives, I will gleefully commemorate African American History Month. I shouldn%u2019t be the only one celebrating. African American history is American history! We hyphenated Americans are merely celebrating the hyphen that history handed us."

-JULIANNE MALVEAUX

[huskerarmy]

"i have yet to hear any other candidate, any other American, refer to themselves as german American, russian American, french American, irish American,or hungarian American."

Linda, Linda, Linda,

Racism is a much bigger deal when you are on the receiving end. It's a matter of who's ox gets gored. It may seem the same but, it can be like the difference between capitol and lower case.

[ohio21975]

To follow up on Linda's post:

... There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
Quoted from 1915!!!!

[lindashelton]

why can't these men and women of color stop making a big deal out of color. being an American is more important. i have yet to hear any other candidate, any other American, refer to themselves as german American, russian American, french American, irish American,or hungarian American. it is not an issue. when a person is born in America, they are American. Period. it is not important where their ancestors came from except when the family gathers for traditional occasions.the race of a person is not an issue. no i did not grow up in the dark ages, i am sick of the race card showing its ugly face. it is devisive and not positive anywhere. it continues to open the door to racism from all sides. except ofcourse on the springer show when a woman claims her baby is light skinned like her former lover so she believes he is the father. oh please!
America will never be forgiven for what the europeans sold to America as a means for free labor. most of our ancestors were not here at that time but because we have white skin, we get blamed for the slavery issue. it's dead. we don't need a reminder of how things were here two hundred years ago.
we should try to ignore racial epithets coming from ignorant people and then move on. the bigger a deal is made from it the hotter the fire is.
lets bring our people home from iraq, afghanistan, and all other "peace" keeping assignment. we need peace HERE.
thank you for reading,
linda shelton
cincinnati, ohio

[huskerarmy]

Worthy of note:

If one had the "If you're not for us, you're against us" mentality of the right, one would slam CBS for their obvious conservative bias for publishing this story in the first place. *** conservative media...

[ohio21975]

I agree with Oleander8 check this link and tell me what's racist. People are so narrow minded and trying to get their feeling hurt in order to throw a "pity party" that we often forget the point.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=slavishly

There is nothing in the definition that would indicate a racict remark.

Ants follow each other "slavishly".
The wimpy "yes man" slavishly follows the boss.

Insert thumb in mouth, close lips, blow - HARD. Get your head outta your #*$ and think.

Mr. Hoyer, I'd retract my apology, you have done nothing wrong.

Pax.

[mstanley57]

Poor word choice, yes; racist, maybe not. Rep. Hoyer's use of 'slavishly' may point to a different origin shared by the word 'slavic', namely 'slav'. Dostoyevsky used 'slavishly'; so did the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and English novelist Virginia Wolff. Etymologists -word hounds - trace 'slavish' meaning 'servilely imitative' to 1565. That seems dead on Hoyer's use. At least Hoyer didn't call the Maryland Republican a 'Briton'. In Old English, 'Briton' too meant 'slave'.